Problems Installing Oracle 8i on Solaris 7 (x86)

["Dan Zemke" <dzemke@atheart.com>]

I continue to get the following statement -- syntax error: '(' unexpected --
when running runInstaller (8.1.5) and orainst (8.0.5) on a Solaris 7 (x86)
PII 333.  I believe this is caused by terminal problems.  Oracle doesn't
recognize TERM as dtterm.  I've tried TERM and ORACLE_TERM as 386 with no
resolution.  ANY insight into this would be helpful. Thanks.